Kingsknowes Hotel

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The Kingsknowes Hotel is a hotel in the Scottish town of Galashiels in the Council Area Scottish Borders . In 1990 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.

history

Adam Lees Cochrane , owner of Netherdale Mill , built the building as a villa in 1868 . For the design he engaged the Scottish architect William Hay , who had recently returned to Scotland from a 20-year stay in the United States. Construction was completed the following year. The winter garden on the property was designed by Mackenzie and Moncur and was presented at an exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1868 . In the second half of the 1900s, Harold Ogle Tarbolton carried out minor revisions to the hotel.

description

The Kingsknowes Hotel is located near the left bank of the Tweed in the southeast of Galashiels. The site overlooks the former mill buildings to the northeast and the Abbotsford estate to the south. The A6091 crosses the Tweed directly to the northeast. The building, designed in the Scottish Baronial style , also has neo-Gothic elements as well as details of French Renaissance architecture . The masonry of the asymmetrically constructed hotel consists of red sandstone . The concluding hip roofs are covered with slate. The winter garden, which is adjacent to the south-west of the hotel, is to be emphasized, to which the monument protection explicitly extends. This has an octagonal floor plan and is connected to the main building via a corridor. The structure, made of small, convex glass elements, closes with a curved hood with a round lantern on top .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b Entry on Kingsknowes Hotel  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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Coordinates: 55 ° 36 '13.4 "  N , 2 ° 47' 0.2"  W.